Resilient support for packing fragile articles



Oct. 27,

s, H. GCLDBERG RESILIENT SUPPORT Fon PACKING FRAG'ILE ARTICLES .Filed uw 1'. 1924 Patented Oct. 2.7, 1925.

soLoMo'Nrr. convienne, or CHICAGO, iLLrNors.

yRESILIEIN'I SUPPORT FOR'VPACKING FRAGILE ARTICLES.

' Application led May 1,

T all whom t mayy concern? f Be it knownothat I, SOLOMON H. GOLD- BERG, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and Stateof Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Resilientv Supports for PackingfFragile Articles, of which the following is a specification.

This inventio-n'relates to improvements inv resilient support for packing fragile articles, and refers more particularly to a construction especially adapted for use in the shipping of fragile articles, which are veasily broken, to reduce to ank absolute minimum the amount of breakage usually incident to shipping. y

In the preferred embodiment ofmy invention, `it is particularly adapted for use in shipping radio sets. During lthe past few years, countless methods of packing have been utilized, in the shipping of these radio sets, but these various methods of packing were all defective, resulting yin a high breakage. Y y

The express companies handling the shipping of these sets have disbursed hundreds of thousands of dollars as a result of the breakage in transit of such a delicate and fragile article as a radio set.

I have evolved a construction consisting of a resilient metallic support to be positioned in a shipping crate or box, on which the radio set or analogous fragile constructions are placed.

- In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of shipping crate, resilient support and radio set in place.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the supports with the radio set shown in dotted lines.

Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the support, illustrating one form of construction. Fig. 4: is a detail view, with parts broken away, illustrating the spring connection of both ends of the support.

Referring to the drawings, l designates a shipping crate or box, of wood, fibre or other suitable material having the bottom 2, sides and ends 3 and cover portions A. Removably supported on the bottom 2 are the resilient supports 5, which may be of wire or other material having analogous resilient qualities. The support 5 has laterally extending portions 6, adapted to rest on the bottom of .the box; U-shaped return bent portions 7, which may incline upwardly as shown at 8 and cross connecting bars 9. The

1924. Serial No. 710,300.

. support is preferably formed from a` single length of wire, one end 10 having more orV less fixedly attached thereto the coil spring 1l, into which the opposite end l2 is adapted to be inserted. One' of the advantages! of this particular form of spring connectionis the ease of assembly and disassembly, and the certainty'of the connection in use.. I have shown in Figs. 1 and 2, two sup,-`

ports 5 having their inner return bent por-` tions 7 overlapping. This is one of the preferred forms of construction, but I wish to point out that one elongated support of this general character may be employed or more than two may be used. As shownk in Fig. 2, the inner cross connecting pieces 9, provide a support for the radiovset designated as 13, at the point of highest strain.

It will be seen thatI have provided a readily adjustable support of this character, for use particularly in the shipment of radio sets, by which the shaking and vibrating action encountered in shipment is taken up by the resiliency of the supports, which, in effect, perform the function of springs.l In addition, the delicate fittings and accessories positioned in the box are prevented from breaking dueto the spring action of these resilient supports and the consequent ready adjustment to the exigencies of shipping. In other words, these delicate fittings and accessories are more or less kfixedly attached to the box 18 and a sudden jar will snap. them 0E, on account of the lack of resiliency. It will be readily seen that with the advantages of my resilient construction, this objection will be overcome. j

The supports are, of course, adjustable laterally to accommodate articles of various lengths. As pointed out, the return bends 7 may incline upwardly as shown at 8 or they may lie in the same horizontal plane as the base portions 6.

I have specifically described the particular embodiment of my invention as applied to a radio be attained when shipping other similar fragile or easily breakable constructions.

I claim as my invention:

l. A construction of the character described, consisting of a box having a basev portion, a flexible support mounted therein, comprising a single piece of wire bent to vform substantially parallel base supports, having return bent ends integrally connected with cross pieces.

set. The same advantages can f 2. A construction of the character described, consisting of a box having a base portion, a iiexible support mounted therein, comprising a singlepiece of Wirebent to form substantially parallel base supports, having return bent ends upwardly'inclined integrally connected With cross pieces.

3. A construction oflthe character 'described, consisting of a box having a. base portion, aI flexible support mountedthere-in, comprising a `'single l piece of Wire A bent tto form vsubstantially parallel base supports, havin 0' return bent ends l upwardly 4incl-ined and 4inwardly extending, integrally connectedvr with cross pieces.

t. A construction of the character described, oo nsist-ingrof a boxfhaving 'al base portion, resilient nietallicysupports mounted in -saidbox, compris-ing laterally' extending base portionshaving returnbeiit ends-upwardly inclinedintegrally connected Wit-li transverse crosspieces, the inner cross piece of adjacent-supports overlapping toprovide maximum strength.

5. *A resi-lient' supporty con'iprisinga.single piece of Wire bent' to forniI laterally extending: base f portions having return' 'bendsv inclined upwardly, and'integral crosswnenr bers connecting the' return; bends.

A resilient support comprising'a single piece Aof, Wire bent to onin. laterally-extending parallel base portions having return 'form flaterally extending :supporting haseI portions Vterminating hin return ibends 'np- Wardlyinelined, and integral:cross `pieces connecting thei return bends.

' 9. Resilient supports .i adapted lor rusev with radio sets, eoinprising;` resilient Wire bent# to forni laterallyf extending substantially par- :il-lei supporting base portions terminating in. return bends upwardly-aand inwardly nelined, and integral cross pieces connecting the return.- bends, thecrossgpieces .fof adjacent cross pieceslbeing .adapted to overlap When adapted to overelapxvhenfinposition.

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